Age Factor and its Role in the Readers’ Comprehension of Stylistic Heterogeneity
Evidence from Eye Movements and Default Responses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7323377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Kiose (0000-0001-7215-0604, Moscow State Linguistic University, corresponding author), Maria I Kiose |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 394-406 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Siberian Federal University Humanities & Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1997-1370 • E-ISSN: 2313-6014 |
| Publisher | Siberian Federal University (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.17516/1997-1370-0562 |
| OpenAlex | W3023641016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
The article discusses the role of the age factor in the readers’ comprehension of stylistically heterogeneous texts, here the text fragments containing figurative noun groups of salient and non-salient character. The salience effects on eye movement and default responses are studied in the oculographic experiment where the secondary school children had to read the sentences displaying figurativeness. The earlier detected statistically significant corpus salience indices of referential, linguistic and discourse parameters in figurativeness construal get verified experimentally. In accordance with the Graded Salience and Defaultness hypotheses I assumed that the interpretation of figurative noun groups of varied referential, linguistic and discourse salience will require different cognitive effort in terms of both eye movement reactions and default inferences. Several eye-tracking experiments with adult participants sufficed to prove the dependency, however, the results obtained with children did not support the Salience hypothesis in the part of visual perception. The eye movements of children facing figurative noun groups did not show steady correlation patterns with the salience effects of these groups, whereas the default interpretations correlated strongly with referential, linguistic, and discourse salience. The results show evidence in favor of Mixed-Effects Model of interpretation
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Construal level theory · Eye movement · Eye tracking · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Noun · Noun phrase · Perception · Salience (neuroscience · Salient · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |